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More tired than I was on Friday? Maybe
Jun. 26th, 2023 03:28 pmLast week was hot and tiring at work, but I did get to eat some incredible delicious blueberry/lemon twist ice cream and I normally abhor fruit in my ice cream. Mara had a vet appt on Monday about her legs, which she got gabipentin and new joint supplements. Since she will refuse food if it has a pill, I've been manually pilling her first thing in the morning. Only doing the morning doses, which seems to be helping her. She was full of beans by Friday afternoon.
I had lots of things to do over the weekend and then Friday night, Mara had just the worst diarrhea. Multiple times despite me taking her out. 12:30 am bed cleaning and dog butt cleaning was no fun especially because it requires the hose. She did it again on her other bed by the time I woke up at 6.
I cleaned her up again, hosed the bed covers off, then washed them. Put her on the balcony for a bit, cleaned the floor because it got everywhere and then fed her rice. Other than one midday goo on our walk, her stomach was perfectly fine after that, probably due to the rice and plain dry food combo. I was trying to figure out what she ate, since I'm pretty strict with her diet due to *waves*, and I think it was the dark colored crunchy thing she ate on our walk along the road the day before. Either that or the quarter size piece of dried beef, but I have my doubts. I don't know what the dark crunchy thing was, dried poop, dead animal, live baby turtle, truly no idea (the snapping turtle that I saw in the swamp across the road was trying to lay eggs in the gravel on the road bank a couple weeks ago, so baby turtles are possible)
Got past that, spent Saturday tired but not the worst, just emotionally exhausted mostly. By the end of the weekend, I got things checked off my to-do list plus some relaxing and dinner at a fancy (to me) Italian restaurant where I got really really good risotto plus two meals of leftovers.
Last night, Mara had the leg twitches at 1am. It is specifically one back leg and it kicks really hard and over and over. She's really distressed by it (reasonably) and there isn't a ton I can do. Usually the best thing is to sit next to her in a way that the leg can't kick out far, which seems to be really painful until it slows down a bit, then get her on her feet and get her to drink water. Once all that happens, it may twitch again but only a few times and then it stops. This time I was able to give her a gabipentin since I only have her on the morning dose right now and she seems mostly back to normal this morning. This happens every so often and I need to bring it up to the vet again. It does seem to be aggravated by dehydration (it's so humid right now, and Mara gets so hot, so fast and doesn't want to drink).
I got my work tasks done this morning, my truck inspected, oil changed, tires rotated this afternoon and now I'm dragging. But crafting later and B is coming over to escape the humidity.
I had lots of things to do over the weekend and then Friday night, Mara had just the worst diarrhea. Multiple times despite me taking her out. 12:30 am bed cleaning and dog butt cleaning was no fun especially because it requires the hose. She did it again on her other bed by the time I woke up at 6.
I cleaned her up again, hosed the bed covers off, then washed them. Put her on the balcony for a bit, cleaned the floor because it got everywhere and then fed her rice. Other than one midday goo on our walk, her stomach was perfectly fine after that, probably due to the rice and plain dry food combo. I was trying to figure out what she ate, since I'm pretty strict with her diet due to *waves*, and I think it was the dark colored crunchy thing she ate on our walk along the road the day before. Either that or the quarter size piece of dried beef, but I have my doubts. I don't know what the dark crunchy thing was, dried poop, dead animal, live baby turtle, truly no idea (the snapping turtle that I saw in the swamp across the road was trying to lay eggs in the gravel on the road bank a couple weeks ago, so baby turtles are possible)
Got past that, spent Saturday tired but not the worst, just emotionally exhausted mostly. By the end of the weekend, I got things checked off my to-do list plus some relaxing and dinner at a fancy (to me) Italian restaurant where I got really really good risotto plus two meals of leftovers.
Last night, Mara had the leg twitches at 1am. It is specifically one back leg and it kicks really hard and over and over. She's really distressed by it (reasonably) and there isn't a ton I can do. Usually the best thing is to sit next to her in a way that the leg can't kick out far, which seems to be really painful until it slows down a bit, then get her on her feet and get her to drink water. Once all that happens, it may twitch again but only a few times and then it stops. This time I was able to give her a gabipentin since I only have her on the morning dose right now and she seems mostly back to normal this morning. This happens every so often and I need to bring it up to the vet again. It does seem to be aggravated by dehydration (it's so humid right now, and Mara gets so hot, so fast and doesn't want to drink).
I got my work tasks done this morning, my truck inspected, oil changed, tires rotated this afternoon and now I'm dragging. But crafting later and B is coming over to escape the humidity.
